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Bennie G. Thompson

D

Rep. MS-2 · U.S. House · 17 terms

Congress is in session today
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attendance
Vote attendance live
92%
92/100 · beats 8% of the House
Votes missed live
8
of the last 100 House roll calls
Committees live
1
standing committee seats

Political perspective

from the voting record
More liberalMore conservative

On the standard liberal–conservative scale, Thompson sits more conservative than 5% of the House and more liberal than 94%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Votes with own party
100%
Voted with the party on all 15 recent party-line votes.
Their positions, in their own words

We link to what Thompsonsays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.

Contact

They work for you — reach the office.

benniethompson.house.gov
D.C. office: 202-225-5876
2466 Rayburn House Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$771K
From PACs
72.9%
$562K
From individuals
26%
$203K
Cash on hand
$1.4M

“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.

Top sponsors · largest organizational donors
  • INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATIONLabor$10K
  • DELOITTE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEOther / unclassified$10K
  • TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEELabor$10K
  • OSI SYSTEMS INC PAC OSI PACCorporate$10K
  • AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES P E O P L ELabor$10K
  • CARNIVAL/PRINCESS HOLLAND AMERICA LINE INC. PAC (HALPAC)Corporate$10K
  • AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION PACLabor$10K
  • NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL OF AMERICA COMMITTEE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COTTONTrade$10K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Corporate43%
  • Labor27%
  • Trade15%
  • Other / unclassified6%
  • Membership6%
  • Cooperative2%

Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.

Key industries · who the PAC money represents
  • Labor unions$122K
  • Agriculture$59K
  • Energy & utilities$45K
  • Technology$29K
  • Telecom & media$26K
  • Airlines & aviation$24K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 22% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.

Where the money goes

live· 2026 cycle

Thompson's campaign has spent $945K across 496 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • AMERICAN EXPRESS$308K
  • ADVANCED NETWORK STRATEGIES, LLC$125K
  • ROBINSON, VICKIE MS.$28K
  • MS. SANDRA MCCALL$23K
  • EOI MEDIA$22K
  • JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY$19K
Fundraising & event venues
  • TAC'S BAR-B-QUE & CATERING SERVICEGREENWOOD, MS · 3 payments$6K
  • MR. RICKIE TOONOXON HILL, MD · 2 payments$5K
  • MONYA BALDWINBLADENSBURG, MD$5K
  • STEPHEN TEAGUE/S&SBOLTON, MS$255
  • JULIE OLIVER BROWNFAYETTE, MS$240
  • JJ&S CATERING SERVICES, LLCFAYETTE, MS$240
  • MS. HELEN HUNTERFAYETTE, MS · 2 payments$229

These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.

Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.

Background

Represents Mississippi's 2th district · age 78 · from Bolton.

Bennie Gordon Thompson is an American politician and educator serving as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Thompson served as the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023. He was both the first Democrat and the first African American to chair the committee. Since 2011, he has been the only Democrat in Mississippi's congressional delegation, and since 2018 he has been the dean of the delegation after Thad Cochran left Congress.

Before Congress
teacher
Education
Tougaloo CollegeJackson State UniversityHinds County Agricultural High School
Awards
Presidential Citizens Medal

Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.

Stock trades

No periodic transaction reports on file for Thompson in the current House disclosure index.

Committees

live

What they're assigned to work on.

via congress-legislators committee data.

Who they're up against

Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this House seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.

Next election

· 2026 cycle
Other-party challengers
Primary challengers (same party)

+ 1 other minor candidate with little or no money raised.

Last election

· 2024 cycle
Other-party challengers

+ 2 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.

How Bennie actually voted · last 15 bills live

Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.

Congressional calendar · next 12 days

in session recess weekend
Sat 8
weekend
Sun 9
weekend
Mon 10
August recess
Tue 11
August recess
Wed 12
August recess
Thu 13
August recess
Fri 14
August recess
Sat 15
August recess
Sun 16
August recess
Mon 17
August recess
Tue 18
August recess
Wed 19
August recess

The public House legislative schedule — the same for every member, not anyone's personal whereabouts. No flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking.

Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. House Clerk, last 100 roll calls through 23-Jul-2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.